Death Record --- G. W. Wise, An Old Pioneer
Gone---Hymenial---Miscellaneous Matters

Since my last three persons in this town have gone
to try the realities of a continued existence---a
little girl of James R. Dell, about one year old on
the 25th ult., George W. Wise on the 28th, and Noah
Westhouse on the 1st inst., the first from teething,
the second from general prostration, the third
crysipelas and disease of the heart. G. W. Wise was 54
years old, was the founder and first settler of this
township, which was named after him, and the village
from E. G. Loomis, his partner. Mr. W. was born in
Clark county, Ohio, Dec. 8, 1825, worked principally
at farming unitl 10 or 12 years ago, when he and E. G.
Loomis bought a sawmill in Ohio and run it until the
timber was used up in the vicinity, and then bought
some pine land at this place, and being inexperienced,
paid two or three times what it was worth, which
always kept them behind in their business.
Mr. W. moved the machinery of the mill to this
place (then called Buchtel) in March, 1871, the snow
then being nearly three feet deep, built a mill and
founded the future village of Loomis. He also soon
built a mill three miles below here, known as Wise's
little mill, which was burned in the spring of 1877.
The two mills for sometime sawed from 4 to 6,000,000
feet of lumber a year, besides shingles, lath,
pickets, fence posts, bed slats, etc. The mill at this
place was burned in the summer of 1875, and at once
rebuilt. He was elected a justice of the peace in
1875, which he held till his death. He did but little
business in this capacity, and his decisions were
always in accordance with law and justice.
His health had been failing for several months, if
not years. He intended to go to Ohio, to die, but was
not in a condition to do so. His remains were taken to
Wadsworth, Ohio, for interment on the 30th ult. At the
time of his death Mr. Wise was a member of the order
of Knights of Honor, the Independent Order of Good
Templars, had been a member of the M. E. church for
many years, and died triumphing in the faith.

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